Peggy Seeger - The Two Sisters [HD]
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Peggy Seeger sings the English murder ballad 'The Two Sisters' (Child #10) from the 1958 Kapp album 'Alan Lomax Presents Folk-Song Saturday Night'. This song is also known as 'The Cruel Sister' or 'The Twa Sisters' and has been recorded by everyone from Bob Dylan and Pentangle to Tom Waits and Julie Fowlis. Seeger herself recorded another version called 'O The Wind and the Rain'.
NOTE: In the video, I portrayed the older (cruel) sister in the song with a picture of Peggy Seeger (forgive me) in a dark top, the younger sister with the picture of her in white, and the singer of the refrain "I'll be true to my love ..." as a second picture of Peggy in a dark top. I input a WAV (lossless ) audio file to the video to perhaps improve the sound and I eliminated the one major audio imperfection in the song.
No words are good enough to express my appreciation for this precious piece of humanity.
"The sister was hung on the gallows high
The miller was burned at the stake nearby"
That had no right to rhyme so damned well.
I love it!
Thank god for Alan Lomax!
Lovely American version of Child ballad Twa Sisters. I haven’t heard an American version before. Must be Appalachian as they made versions of Child ballads frequently.
It's pretty standard in Appalachian folk music, although more often in that context I see it as "The Wind and Rain"
As a folksinger i am happy tesrs in my eyes that atill lives in the hearts of men.
Wonderful! I love the Pentangle version of this song; this is my first time hearing Seeger's. Absolutely beautiful.
The Two Sister's Lyrics-
There was an old woman left on the sea shore
bow and balance to me
there was an old woman left on the sea shore
her number of daughters 1234
and I'll be true to my love
if my love will be true to me
There was a young man come courting them
bow and balance to me
there was a young man come courting them
the oldest one got struck on him
and I'll be true to my love
if my love will be true to me
he bought the youngest a beaver hat
bow and balance to me
he bought the youngest a beaver hat
the oldest one got mad at that
and I'll be true to my love
if my love will be true to me
Sister, oh sister, lets walk the sea shore
bow and balance to me
sister, oh sister, lets walk the sea shore
see the ships as they sail ore
and ill be true to my love if my love will be true to me
while those two sisters was walking the shore
bow and balance to me
while those two sisters was walking the shore
the eldest pushed the youngest over
I'll be true to my love if my love will be true to me
Sister, oh sister, please lend me your hand
bow and balance to me
sister oh sister please lend me your hand
and you may have Willy and all his land
and I'll be true to my love
if my love will be true to me
I never, I never will lend you my hand
bow and balance to me
I never I never will lend you my hand
but I'll have Willy and all his land
and I'll be true to my love if my love will be true to me
Sometimes she sank and sometimes she swam
bow and balance to me
sometimes she sank and sometimes she swam
until she came to the old mill dam
I'll be true to my love
if my love will be true to me
The miller he got his fishing hook
bow and balance to me
the miller he got his fishing hook
he fished that maiden out of the brook
and I'll be true to my love
if my love will be true to me
Oh miller oh miller here's five gold rings
bow and balance
miller oh miller here's five gold rings
to push my sister in again
I'll be true to my love, if my love will be true to me
The miller received those five gold rings
bow and balance to me
The miller received those five gold rings
and pushed the maiden in again
I'll be true to my love, if my love
The sister was hung on the gallows high
bow and balance to me
the sister was hung on the gallows high
the miller was burned on the stake nearby
I'll be true to my love, if my love will be true to me ~~~~~~~~
Irish, scottish, English very od murder balad? A nice version... From France.
reina del cid brought me here in 2020
Where did this audio come from? This is one of my favorites
Morgan. Her versions of the old ballads that tell a story like this one are my favorites. This song is on the 1958 Kapp album "Folk-Song Saturday Night" which includes songs by Seeger, Alan Lomax, Guy Carawan, and John Cole. The audio is from that vinyl album. She sings six songs - one is "The Two Sisters." I'm thinking of making a Seeger compilation video that includes these songs and others from similar albums that include songs by her and other singers. I did a full album video of her 1962 album "A Song For You And Me" and should soon post full album videos of her two early 1960s albums "The Three Sisters" and "The Best of Peggy Seeger." Take care.
@@GaryLarsonRoots I applaud you for your efforts in providing knowledge of music to people. We always need more people for this.
@@CruelSun69 Thanks. I like these songs and learn more when doing these videos and hope others enjoy the songs too. Take care.
I've been trying to learn the Banjo. Does anyone have any idea what roll she's doing? It sounds like she strums for the chorus, but I can't tell.
I'm partial to the Tom Waits version but this is good as well.
Both this version and the Waits version leave out the part where the sister's body floats ashore, her flesh rots away and her bones are turned into a fiddle that sings of her fate, leading to the cruel sister's suicide / arrest and subsequent execution.
@@edible0pig Well the Waits one makes it sound like the miller got the blame and doesn't mention a suicide at all. I think I prefer the song without the supernatural element you mentioned.
@@edible0pig oh ffs calm down lol
I'm with ya, pal. Tom puts the grit in a gritty story.
@@edible0pigthat ending is in a song about the same story called “The Wicked Sister” by the Irish singer Meav, who was formerly in the band Celtic Woman.
beautiful
couldn't find the lyrics to this particular version anywhere. Do you have them?
@simonandme9397 - Scroll through the posts in this thread: someone posted the lyrics 8 months ago, i.e. a month after you asked. 😉
thank you:)@@ursulamulder110